NEW DELHI: An upward trend in non-basmati rice continued on the local wholesale grains market on Friday mostly influenced by the government's decision to stops its supply to exporters from all the sates in the country except Punjab and registered further gains.
Elsewhere, other commodities continued to move in a narrow range on small alternate bouts of buying and selling and settled around previous levels.
Traders said the goverment's decision to stop its supply to exporters after riced stocks have fallen below the buffer norm of 100 lakh tonnes as on the first of the current month.
In the rice section, permal raw and permal wand gained another Rs 10 each to close at Rs 840-915 and Rs 940-1040 per quintal respectively.
Sela and IR-8 also followed suit and strengthened to Rs 870-950 and Rs 800-890 from previous close of Rs 860-940 and Rs 790-880 per quintal respectively.